Waddya Mean "Democrats", You Corporate Stooge?

Ahh, well, and who among us does not enjoy a Dr. Strangelove reference? Evidently the non-enjoyers include NY Times editors, their readers, the 43% of Democrats who voted for no-PAC Bernie, and even, if we believe what she says rather than what she does, Hillary Clinton.

In any case, the current revised title is

"Democrats Rake In Money, Thanks to Suit by Republicans"

That's not quite "Republicans made us do it!", but it's closer. And it spoils our fun, since it was only last week the Times ran a piece titled

To be fair there is a lot about Hillary that is baffelingly dated. But in this instance, I think the Times people quickly got the message that running yet another reminder of what a special-interest sell-out their party establishment has foisted on an unhappy Democratic base may not be helpful to the ongoing Hillary cram-down promotional effort.

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Leon Wieseltier is a pretty smart lib who doubtlessly didn't survive one of the Children of the Cornhole's periodic purges because he wouldn't give up his support of Israel. I wouldn't automatically dismiss watching the show because of him. That doesn't mean he's incapable of saying something nutty although he usually pulls back from that.

Also speaking of TCM, they showed an hour long interview with Gene a Wilder last night. It was fantastic. I believe it was called "Role Models: Gene Wilder" and it's well worth looking for when it's shown again.

Alec Baldwin was the interviewer. He's a horrendous human being with repugnant views and a distressing personal history, but I will say this: he is a damned good interviewer and he certainly knows and respects his movie history.

The call happened just two days after FBI Director James Comey told Congress that there had been more “attempted intrusions” in U.S. voter registration databases and that the agency was looking “very, very hard” at whether Russian hackers were trying to disrupt the fall election.

well I thought initially, a passion project to john reed, original political pilgrim seemed flawed, but it showed how the latter was a premature sjw, so emptyheaded he fell for lenin's agitprop, hook line and sinker, also in stapleton's emma goldman, it relates the first wave of repression, which he refuses to accept,

Anyone who thinks RODHAM is more capable than Trump is a MORON. Our country is full of FREE SHIT ARMY morons.
Rodham is a sociopath AT LEAST. ZERO MORAL CODE. ZERO ACCOMPLISHMENTS, And 4 STILL DEAD in Benghazi. And she LIED in front of their FAMILIES, their COFFINS, and THE WORLD.
RODHAM is a DISGRACE. RODHAM has been a LYING DISGRACE since the day she was born.
Her BELOVED Husband is a SEXUAL PREDATOR, and she is COMPLICIT and 100% AWARE of what HER HUSBAND has done.

The world's top female chess players have reacted with horror after being told they must compete at next year's world championship wearing a hijab...Fide's Commission for Women's Chess, meanwhile, called on participants to respect “cultural differences” and accept the regulations...

...In response, Grandmasters lined up to say they would boycott the 64-player knock-out and accused the game's scandal-hit governing body Fide of failing to stand up for women’s rights...

Nigel Short, the British former world title contender, said: "There are people from all sorts of backgrounds going to this, there will be atheists, Christians, all sorts of people.

"If you are deeply Christian why would you want to wear a symbol of Islamic oppression of women?"

Checkmate, Nigel!

Trump ought to offer to stage the entire Tournament in one of his Trump properties and tell the Iranians to pound sand. Unfortunately, if Trump did that, the media would accuse him of being a Nazi lover.

Daddy, the ORLANDO wife has no doubt gotten immunity from James Commie. I'd love to see Commie get his throat slashed on national TV.
This scandal is as big as ANY in U.S. HISTORY.
The COMMIE, BILLY JEFF CLINTON--LORETTA LYNCH---tarmac NONSENSE is part of it.

A CHAMPION for OVARIES!!!
Billy Jeff Clinton touched KATHLEEN WILLEY in a SEXUAL MANNER, on the day her HUSBAND committed suicide. Billy Jeff Clinton found a woman in EXTREME DISTRESS and in EXTREME NEED of kindness and in need of a JOB. Bill Clinton acted as a PREDATOR.
RODHAM KNOWS THIS, and is COMPLICIT.

Many dont consider it a symbolic oppression and insist on wearing it everywhere as well as work, like cops. Hides head and some face, not necessarily bad for those forced to view, but bad for the good as evil doers (thiefs 'n terrorists)

A bit more info coming out on the 19 year old Vote Fraud guy at JMU who signed up the 19 dead voters. He is, unsurprisingly, Andrew Spieles, a junior political science major. His tweet and Facebook pages are rapidly disappearing like Hillary's E-Mails, but the papers say he's a Democrat, and in some mock Election a few months back he pretended to be Ted Cruz, and according to a write-up, turned in a Cruz mocking performance.

He's "Lead Organizer for HarrisonbergVotes@gmail.com" and his picture comes up at the top of the JMUVotes website.

"Every Vote Counts" reads a pic at the JMU Votes link.

Not if Andrew Spiels has anything to do with it it doesn't. He tried to cheat 19 honest Americans out of having their legitimate Votes matter by letting 19 phony votes cancel out their honest votes.
I'd recommend one year in prison for each vote he tried to cheat. Maybe that'd send a message that we're finally ready to take Vote Fraud seriously in this country.

has Trump up 46.7% to 42.3%, thus Trump support is down .6% from yesterday while Clinton support is UP .6% and zag back towards Clinton on the first day where a majority of the sampling has been post-debate.

The poll shows black support for Donald Trump down from 18.2% three days ago and 17.7% two days ago, 16.9% yesterday, is now at 16.3% -- hmmmm.

RCP doesn't do its own polling, they do averaging, so their office politics is not much of a factor -- which is a big part of why they're useful. Posted by: JM Hanes | September 30, 2016 at 11:09 AM

JM Hanes, I disagree. I know RCP doesn't do their own polling. They don't have to is my point. I suspect it is something along the lines of what rse is suggesting; something has been baked into the cake. When you see the visceral reaction of the political *industry* to Trump, that sparks deep, deep distrust in me in the accepted tools of the industry. And RCP is *the* accepted tool for the shapers and handlers, this is (IMHO) why they have lampooned these instant online polls -- they simply can't shape and control them nearly as easily, and they very clearly capture the combination that has bedeviled them this cycle -- a revulsion for the global elite and a very surprising enthusiasm for Trump.

Tom R, September 30, 2016 at 01:17 PM, I'm not so sure the L.A. Times daily tracking model doesn't still retain an ability to play with their model (thank you, fine print - September 30, 2016 at 02:18 PM, for the fine print! as it pertains to their poll).

What I'm curious about with their daily tracking model is whether their shaping and handling (yes, I do presume they can still do so; it's a poll, they ALL retain this ability) runs contrary to those snap polls that showed a very clear advantage for Trump, do they show the debate being a neutral event (the likelihood, IMHO), or do they show an advantage for Clinton. If it's an advantage for Clinton, I know the shaping and handling is far too much with them, too, in this tool that appears designed to be a polling refinement. That's my bias.

I thought the checking of each candidate's page for likes by your friends on Facebook (which someone mentioned yesterday) was pretty interesting.

On my Facebook friends it's 16 Trump vs. 4 Hillary.

Now obviously this is weighted by who my friends are, as I don't have too many dem friends other than relatives and the odd acquaintance left from high school. It's also weighted by the fact that some people (like me) don't use Facebook for political stuff. However, I did take the opportunity to like Trump's page when I was there.

Checked with my son, who uses Facebook far more and has a wider circle of friends including lots of democrats due to both his age (Gen X) and his work history. He told me he had checked this a couple of days ago and his friends were running 75% Trump.

I don't know what to think about all of this poll stuff. Can they actually factor in new voters and decamping democrats? I don't know. I also don't know if they are rigging polls to cover voter fraud.

I am well aware that it's easy to be misled. That's why I don't look at polls very much one way or the other.

The microphone in question was Trump's microphone for the hall, not the one which picked up his sniffing. In other words, the people in the hall couldn't hear him well. That is why he sounded sort of loud.

Now, Trump has been working on not shouting everything, as anyone who has been paying attention should have noticed, including NBC and the Clinton camp.

What better way to move him back into talking loud than to goof up his audio for the hall, so that he feels the need to raise his voice so that the live audience can hear him?

That was deliberate. If I were his people I WOULD stop the debate until things are fixed.

I still say, after watching this, that someone should check on when she got her citizenship, when she applied, how she passed the required background check, and if her application was expedited and if so, who okayed it. (I noticed that Hillary made a big deal about her getting her citizenship and being able to vote.)

Someone tell me how to do the FB thing where you can check your friend's party inclination?

Also, I'll try to post a photo later but there is a large beautiful estate home at 61 South Main Street, Southampton that has a huge Trump 2016 MAGA banner spread out between the pillars leading to the front entrance. This is BFD and I just hope he has it electrified and has extra security cams and even patrols because that house will be under prog and illegal siege.

The bravery of this home owner to flaunt his opinion right in the heart of Southampton is admirable but I do fear for his house. The progs and liberals in this town are all ex-Manhattanites where their vote doesn't count as much as it does out here.

I was at a small gathering last night (5 couples). We didn't bring up politics, but three of five (including us) declared support for Trump at some point, the other two were silent. This is on the Upper West Side. Not a random sample of course, but the important thing is that no one was embarrassed to say "I'm voting for Trump." (I think the two quiet couples are probably Hillary voters.) Also one of the couples votes in FL.

Which reminds me: Does FL have early voting? This couple mentioned that they might not be in FL on 11/8 and weren't sure if they could still get an absentee ballot.

Florida has early voting. 10/24 to 11/5. I am voting absentee this year.

BTW, in re voter fraud. If I vote absentee which is not opened until all the votes are cast on 11/8, then how do they know if I didn't come back to Florida and vote in person at my precinct. Do they check every absentee against the sign-in rolls from the precinct on election day?

jimmy-I voted in Fla for years and usually tried to go down during the two weeks of early voting. If you always vote absentee, Fla will stop sending absentee ballots after several elections under the theory a resident should be there more often than that.

Particularly fun to go vote and then go to Halloween parties at the beach.

JIB-they know who has requested an absentee ballot and whether it has been turned in. We used to get numerous calls to our answering machines where they would say "we see you have asked for but not yet returned your absentee ballot." That was usually my husband who was less likely to be there in person.

My next door neighbor was in charge of the voting precinct and she said they do know a lot and cross-check, but that was walton county in the panhandle.

Yes Jack,
On the rolls it shows you already voted absentee.
Even if you requested an absentee ballot you would have to vote a provisional ballot so that you could t vote twice. It would say you were sent an absentee ballot.

If anyone here has sent me an unanswered friend request, please don't be offended or take it personally! I really haven't used Facebook for anything but checking out pix posted by my kids for years.

I resented Facebook's efforts to worm it's way into every facet of its users lives from the start, and the whole clutter of social media just turned out to be one electronic bridge too far for me. I've been meaning to cancel the whole account and replace it with a family only one of some sort, but just never seem to get around to actually doing it.